Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
Sartre, Jean-Paul. George Braziller, 1961 (2nd Printing). Hardbound. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. A dazzling edition of Sartre's influential study of the writer he identifies as both 'actor'—'the human creature,' according to the flap copy, 'who consciously chooses his own selfhood and then enacts the consequences of his choice'—and 'martyr'—'insofar as his role has been misunderstood'. The jacket features an elegant use of the nineteenth-century title type, Latin Condensed, arranged in columns with the book's effusive accolades and divided by a tidy row of fleurs-de-lis which is echoed in purple foil stamping on the spine and front board.
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Metallic stamping to spine and front board remain bright. Some bumped corners. Mylar-protected jacket is not price-clipped and suffers from some areas of heavy edge-wear and chipping, as well as a few very small areas of loss. 625 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
